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Squatting is like any kind of living experience. It depends on how you do it, who you do it with and where you do it. I've paid rent to live in a shit hole, with arseholes, in areas I've hated. Equally, have squatted in perfectly fine residences, with good people, in OK areas. A lot of silly people do it for the 'coolness' factor and they tend to be the ones that never wash up, develop an unreasonable liking for dub reggae and an unfathomable taste for pot noodle. They also tend to be the ones that, the minute things become difficult, run straight back to their parents in the 'burbs.
I imagine it's just as difficult now to squat in the UK as Atari's anecdote above suggests it is in the US. Saying that, I'm strictly a rent paying pillar of society now, so I wouldn't know for sure. Good memories of when I did it though. Although It did leave me with a lifelong aversion to Lee Perry records, I have to say.
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